Word: negresses
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...careful reputation. Soon they quarreled openly and Charles went off to live by himself. In his way both a dandy and an ascetic, Baudelaire astonished even the Bohemians. His first mistress was a hideous, squint-eyed, consumptive Jewess off the streets. Then he met Jeanne Duval, a beautiful Negress, and lived with her many stormy months. His hand-to-mouth existence was complicated by laudanum, which he took to stifle intestinal pains...
...Thomasville, Ga., an aged Negress applied at a bank for a $5 loan, was told that she must get an endorser or put up collateral. She went home, brought back a $10 goldpiece. The bank took her collateral, arranged the loan...
...Manhattan Actress Ethel Barrymore, as had been widely predicted, closed her new play Scarlet Sister Mary in which she appeared as a Negress (TIME, Dec. 1). But she declared she would again try the production on the road. She explained: ". . . It's mob psychology. The people got together and said they'd not see me black. ... It seems to me New York audiences don't want something good now. . . . Anyway, I'm in damn good company! They wouldn't have Sheridan, or Goldsmith, and it's taken people a pretty long time to swallow Stravinsky. It was a good while...
...role was that of Sister Mary (Si May-e), a noble, impetuous Negress whose first husband leaves her for his side woman within a year of their marriage. After that she becomes notoriously promiscuous, tenderly raises a brood of illegitimate children. After 20 years her husband, whom she has never ceased to love, returns. Sister Mary scorns him. Then her firstborn, Unex (so named because he was unexpectedly born in the middle of a road), dies and in a loud wail, as the curtain falls, Sister Mary finally makes known her contrition. Ethel Barrymore Colt, as one of Sister Mary...
...Birmingham, Ala., Gola Martin, Negress, protested to police that her son Sam had sold her $50 false teeth for 10? to go to a cinema...